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If you have any questions,you can refer to some of the questions in the comment part by other astronomers I know,or simply email me at Valdricolim@yahoo.com.sg.
NASA"s New Horizons image of Jupiter 1
These are Jupiter's massive storms,the Great Red Spot(GRS) and thedot just below it is the recently discovered Red Spot.Jr(RSJr)
NASA"s New Horizons image of Jupiter 2
This is an image of Jupiter's rings
NASA"s New Horizons image of Jupiter 3
This is an image of Jupiter's 4th largest moon,Europa,which has smooth icy surface and its diameter is slightly smaller than our Moon's
NASA"s New Horizons image of Jupiter 4
This is an image of Jupiter's 3rd largest moon,Io,which is the most active volcanic body in our Solar System due to the gravities of Jupiter and its other moons.It has a diameter slightly larger than our Moon's
NASA"s New Horizons image of Jupiter 5
This is an image of Jupiter's largest moon and the largest moonin our Solar System.Its diameter is about 470km more than Planet Mercury!
My issue in Astronomy
This the June issue
Pluto-Bound Spacecraft
Finally in 29 years!!NASA has launched a spacecraft to Pluto.
Astrophotography Gallery:
Featured image:Telescopic view of the crescent Moon(Can you see a crater or 2 of the Moon?)
Astrophotography Gallery:
Featured image:Telescopic view of Venus(Can you see a dim shadow of Venus's phrase?Because Venus is not at full phrase)
Astrophotography Gallery:
Featured Image:Telescopic view of Saturn(Can you see the gap between the planet and its rings?)
Astrophotography Gallery:
Featured image:Telescopic view of Jupiter(Can you see a dim dot just below the planet?Thats Ganymede,the largest Galilean satelite of Jupiter,largest moon of our solar system and larger than Mercury)
Astrophotography Gallery:
Featured Image:Gibbous Moon near dusk(evening)(Its Gibbous for sure,look carefully,is the Moon exactly round?)
Astrophotography Gallery:
Featured Image:Gibbous Moon(Can you see a small bright dot southwest of the Moon?Thats Jupiter)
2 comments:
Q:What is so great about Eta Carinae?
A:Eta Carinae is one of the luminous hypergiant star known.Estimates shown that it is about 4 million times heavier then our Sun.Currently,Eta Carinae has many supernovas happening from its past,but also help us to know that there are also failed supernovas.
Q:Which planet has the most number of moons before the space age?
A:Saturn.In 1655,Christiaan Huygens discovered the first and largest moon,Titan.Giovanni Cassini discovered Iapetus in 1671,Rhea in 1672,Dione and Tethys in 1684.Uranus-discoverer William Herschel discovered Mimas and Enceladus in 1789.In 1848,William Lassell discovered Hyperion.Then in 1899,William Pickering discovered Phoebe.And in 1966,Audouin Dollfus discovered Janus,but at that time it was thought that Janus was the only moon.So it took years later until it was found out that there was a 2nd body,which Richard Walker did discovered,Epimetheus.In total,9 Saturnian moons were known before the space age.(Excluding Janus and Epimetheus,which spacecrafts did not discover.)
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